PorchDrinking’s Weekly Denver Beer Beat | January 8, 2020

The Denver Beer Beat is a weekly roundup of brewery openings, special tappings, firkins and one-off batches, bottle releases, dinners, pairings, and more happening in the Front Range and beyond. Be sure to check in each Wednesday to discover anything and everything happening around Colorado’s beer scene. Now let’s get to this week’s can’t miss beer events.

Wednesday, January 8

Details: New Year! New Beer! Here’s our latest small batch beer! We decided to brew up a small batch IPA with spruce tips! Come taste this magical piney beer for yourself on Wednesday January 8th at 3pm! There will only be one keg available that means it will go fast and no crowlers to-go!

Details: Dates for the exclusive opportunity of Briar Common Brewery Crafty Classes. We will provide a complimentary Brewing Educational Series for our guests at Briar Common Brewery + Eatery.

The courses will begin at 4:30pm and will last one hour and fifteen minutes. Each course will provide the exclusive opportunity to learn about different varieties of not only beer, but will include various hops + their characteristics and well as yeast and brewing techniques; all the while tasting some of our creations.

We are able to offer limited seating on each date for this exciting opportunity. To secure your seats, please contact Heather Jaeger at [email protected]

Details: Seedstock Brewery is releasing it’s award winning Dusseldorf Alt. It was named the 3rd best beer of 2018, and the 38th best beer of ALL TIME by Beer Connoisseur Magazine!

Seedstock’s altbier is brewed in the ‘Dusseldorf’ tradition/style, meaning it’s less sweet and more bitter than Northern German style alt. At 5.0-percent ABV, this beer has a clean, malty aroma with a very slight hint of fruitiness. It is assertive in its hop bitterness and balanced by a clean, bready malt character. The long-lasting, dry finish makes it a very sessionable beer.

Details: Some of the best breweries in the Nation are taking over our taps! Join us as we tap very special beers in honor of the Big Beers, Belgians & Barleywine Festival that you’ll only find at Après! All beers tapped at 7:00pm.

The perfect combination for a Winter Wonderland getaway: A world-class beer festival in the Colorado Rocky Mountains. Meet renowned brewmasters and brewery owners, taste hundreds of big, Belgian style, and experimental beers, explore beer and food pairings, and learn from an impressive array of brewmasters and industry experts over an action-packed three day weekend.

As a novice, an aficionado, or an advanced homebrewer, you can enjoy an unprecedented opportunity to discuss beer with the amazing people who make it happen. Dig in further to learn more about this little festival in the mountains that the beer industry has held in such high esteem for 20 years!

Details: The 6th annual LowDown Barrel Aged Beer Festival is set for Saturday January 11th! One day only! Per usual, LowDown will be releasing several of our own barrel aged beers. As always- our friends from Elevation Beer Co, Ratio Beer Works, Dry Dock Brewing, River North Brewery, Lagunitas Brewing Company, Baere Brewing, Little Machine Beer, and Black Project Spontaneous and Wild Ales, will be bringing some of their barrel aged goodness as well. We will tap the barrel aged beers at 11AM when we open and pour them until they’re gone- so don’t get here too late! There’s not many places where there are 14 different barrel aged beers on tap at one time- don’t miss this one!

Details: This is our biggest release of the year! 3 new barrel-aged bottled beers will be ready for your enjoyment.

Single Barrel Select BMF – Imperial Stout aged in a Colorado Rye Whisky barrel. The rye imparts notes of vanilla with a slight spiciness that is rounded out by the big, boozy imperial stout. With only 25 cases this one is not to be missed. Limit 2 per customer.

Details: A local favorite – Imperial Red Ale. This beer is big and resinous, lace up your boots and get ready.

Aces and Eights were the cards reportedly held by Old West gunfighter Wild Bill Hickok when he was murdered at the poker table. This seasonal ale pays homage to our building’s history: during its 100 years the City Star Barn allegedly changed hands twice during local poker games.

Details: Come meet brewers from TRVE & Crooked Stave – grab some swag + free tasters, then select your favorite to purchase and vote for your brewery! Can’t decide? Buy a flight! Can’t make it Saturday? Six taps have been taken over for the entire month of January – stop by and vote.

We roll on into 2020 with a stomping good time on Sunday, January 12 for Bluegrass Brunch. Follow the Fox is a fantastic local, contemporary American roots duo and we are pumped to have them in our heated patio tent for two sets of fine music beginning at noon.

Farm to Truck will be here as always serving up their delicious brunch specials.

Don’t miss out on the first Bluegrass Brunch of the new year. Take our word for it.